Hi, I've been looking around a bit for some code to handle DBI connect() failures nicely, I want my program to continue running, doing something alternate because of a connection failure flag somehow being set? 
$dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:Oracle:', qq{$bu_username/$bu_passwd@(DESCRIP
+TION=
    (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST= $bu_host)(PORT=$bu_port))
    (CONNECT_DATA=(SID=$bu_sid)))}, "");
  
 if ( undef $dbh ) {
  print LF "Cannot connect to database!\n";
  &log_send_mail;
  exit;
 }
 else {
  print "Connection to $bu_sid successful\n";
 }

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How can I do this gracefully? How do I set {RaiseError => 1} with my connect string above? I certainly don't want a string of errors and die happening. I've also unsuccessfully tried by checking the value of a parameter being set via || on the connect statement. I've also checked out: http://labs.redhat.com/cturner/DBI_AdvancedTalk_2002/

In reply to Graceful handling of DBI connect errors' by Anonymous Monk

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